Our Inheritance
Building on past achievements of faculty, staff and students
Our Goal
The premier sustainability planning school in North America by CIP/PAB accreditation review in 2004
My Approach
My SWOT analysis
My Strategy - Working together
My Style - Collaborative leadership
My Priorities for Early Action
Planning for Planning
Reviewing Our Performance
Professionalism, the Profession and the Community
Developing the Sustainability Focus
Revising Degree Programs and Curriculum
Strengths:
Experience, talent and commitment of our faculty, staff and students.
Weaknesses:
Fragmentation of efforts
Neglect of our own community
Opportunities:
Growing demand worldwide for sustainability planning
TREK 2000: interdisciplinarity, internationalization and information generation
Threats:
Inadequate university budgets
Increasing demands burn out staff, students and faculty
Newly emerging programs increasingly compete against us.
My Strategy - Working Together
Staff, students, faculty
Across the campus
In the community
My Style - Collaborative Leadership
Challenging our thinking - listening
Building consensus - task groups
Deciding and acting - accounting
Keeping informed - intranet
Early Priorities for Action
My proposals for your reaction
Discussions before decisions
Today, feedback on the general direction
Opportune time for innovation: TREK 2000, CIP/PAB Review
1. Planning for Planning: Practicing What We Profess
Greater emphasis on explicitly and jointly choosing what we do, how we do it and when.
- acting more planningly
- looking forward
Establish annual planning cycle
- agree on priorities
- set targets
- make commitments
- integrate teaching, research and community activities
- exploit comparative advantage
- balance workloads
- create incentives
- allocate support
- stage innovation
Planning for multi-year issues
- renewing faculty and staff
- sequencing leaves
- student recruiting
- program development
2. Review and Feedback on Our Performance
Me
Continuing review and feedback on my performance as Director
- Annual stock taking
- Linked to planning cycle
- Trip wires: My family, the Grouse Grind, Your support
Us
Greater emphasis on constructive and timely review and feedback
- Among faculty, staff and students
- In teaching, research, service and administration
- Performance indicators identified
- Productivity goals agreed to
3. New Professionalism, the Profession and the Community
Greater emphasis on being a professional school
Distinctive on campus
Our special relationship with wider community.
Modelling best practice - the way we run the School
The faculty in professional practice
Mentoring, interning and apprenticing
Preparation for professional practice
- Mainstream and radical
- Public, private, non-profit sectors
- Developed and developing world
4. Developing the School's Sustainability Focus
"To advance the transition to sustainability through excellence in integrated policy and planning research, professional education and community service."
SCARP is recognised for its sustainability planning focus
Our Mission Statement serves us well
Staying on the leading edge
- Accelerating the transition to sustainability
- Advancing sustainability strategies
- Overcoming the barriers to implementation
Strengthening the ways we pursue our Mission
- Articulation of shared framework
- Exploring the differences in views
- Identifying common ground
- Focusing on our comparative advantage
Implications
- Curriculum
- Research
- Practice
5. Revising Degree Programs and Curriculum
Reviewing the masters and doctoral programs
- Professional and academic goals for the 21st century
- A staged and systematic approach
- Through task groups and consultation
- Informed by experience and innovations elsewhere
- Founded on our comparative advantage and vision
Revising the masters program
- Graduation within 24 months
- A project option as an alternative to thesis
- Course support for project and thesis completion
- Revision of required courses to integrate curriculum
- Adjusting distribution of credits required for degree
- Enrolment: Numbers, part-time, scheduling
Adding certificates in select specializations
- Focused on our comparative advantage
- Courses taken during or after masters
Doctoral program
- Design of programs for professional vs academic careers
- Focus of program: research and professional practice
- Recruiting and admission
- Size of program
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